Ray Romano makes $18 million a year in residuals from his beloved show “Everybody Loves Raymond,” according to Vanity Fair and Forbes.
Both outlets reported the staggering amount in 2012, seven years after the sitcom ended.
Vanity Fair noted that Romano’s earnings were coming from syndication deals.
At the time, Vanity Fair ranked Romano as one of TV’s highest-paid actors despite “Everybody Loves Raymond” no longer being on the air.
The other male actors on the list included Ashton Kutcher, Tim Allen, Patrick Dempsey, Hugh Laurie and Mark Harmon, who were all starring in popular shows at that point.
Romano currently is worth $200 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
The 68-year-old actor played sportswriter Ray Barone on all nine seasons of the CBS sitcom, starring alongside Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts and Peter Doyle.
For the final season of the show, Romano set a Guinness World Record as the highest-paid TV actor per episode, pulling in nearly $2 million for each episode.
Romano’s salary sparked behind-the-scenes drama as Garrett led the rest of the cast to negotiate raises once they learned Romano was making so much more money than them.
“It was inevitable,” Romano told the Daily News in 2003. “When my salary came out in the papers, I knew stuff would happen.”
The Emmy winner admitted that he would’ve done “the same thing” as his co-stars, who got their pay raises for the final season.
“I don’t hold anything against anyone, not the cast or CBS. I’m loyal to both of them,” Romano said. “I wanted it to get resolved, but I knew it had to play its course.”
The “Everybody Loves Raymond” cast, including Romano, Garrett and Heaton, reunited in November for the show’s 30th anniversary special, which honored late stars Roberts and Boyle.
A few months earlier, Romano exclusively told The Post at another 30th anniversary event for the show that there won’t be a reboot.
Romano said that since Roberts and Boyle are both dead, a revival of the series wouldn’t make sense.
“We’re all heartbroken. They’re a big part of the show, the dynamic,” he told The Post.
Romano added, “Without them, I don’t know what the dynamic is. We love the show too much, we respect it too much to even try to do it.”
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